On June 16, Alla Leonovna Semenas, who worked for many years in the Department of Languages of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, passed away prematurely.

A. L. Semenas was born on September 16, 1937 in the family of a professional diplomat and sinologist. She spent her childhood years in Chongqing and Nanjing, where she developed a love for China and Chinese culture, which she carried throughout her life. After graduating from high school, she had no doubts about choosing her life path. In 1954, Alla Leonovna entered the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, majoring in Chinese Philology. In the spring of 1957, as part of the first group of Soviet students, she went to study in China, became a student at the Faculty of Chinese Language and Literature of Peking University, and in 1961 graduated with honors from this faculty.

After returning to Moscow, Alla Leonovna works at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the group of the Large Chinese-Russian Dictionary under the guidance of the outstanding Soviet sinologist L. M. Oshanin. It was he who first instilled in her a taste for lexicography, which now becomes the subject of her scientific research for the rest of her life. In 1970-1973, Alla Leonovna entered the post - graduate school of the Institute, where the famous scientist V. M. Solntsev became her supervisor. In 1973, she successfully defended her PhD thesis on "Copulative communication type in the vocabulary of modern Chinese".

The works of a prominent Russian linguist, Professor B. Y. Gorodetsky, greatly influenced the nature of A. L. Semenas ' scientific research. In 1992, under his editorship, A. L. Semenas published the monograph "Lexicology of the modern Chinese language", which for the first time in Russian literature presents the experience of scientific and search research of the lexical and semantic system of the Chinese language, examines the state of linguistic research in the PRC, the development of Chinese lexicographic science and the work of modern Chinese linguists on compiling dictionaries, analyzes the main regularities Keywords: Chinese vocabulary, paradigmatic relations between words, syntagmatic structure of lexical complexes of the modern Chinese language. The monograph was highly appreciated by the Russian and international scientific community. In China alone, it has received five reviews. In 1993, on the basis of this monograph, Alla Leonovna successfully defended her dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philology.

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Alla Leonovna successfully combined her scientific research with her teaching work. She generously shared her knowledge with young colleagues, students, postgraduates, teachers in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Ussuriysk listened to her, and her students now teach Chinese at universities in Moscow, Eastern Siberia and the Far East.

Based on her lectures, Alla Leonovna prepared the textbook "Vocabulary of the Chinese language", which has already passed through three editions. In total, she has published 80 scientific papers.

A. L. Semenas took an active part in international scientific cooperation, made presentations at scientific conferences in Russia, China, and Taiwan.

In recent years, Alla Leonovna has been actively working on the collection of new vocabulary of the Chinese language, which formed the basis of the "Chinese-Russian dictionary of new words and expressions"prepared with her participation.

Alla Leonovna was an exceptionally kind, sympathetic person, she always responded to the requests of colleagues.

The memory of Alla Leonovna Semenas , a talented scientist and a good person, will always remain in our hearts.

FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES

MAIN SCIENTIFIC WORKS OF A. L. SEMENAS*

Lexicology of the modern Chinese language, Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1992, 279 p.

Lexika kitayskogo yazyka [Vocabulary of the Chinese language], Moscow: Muravey, 2000. 320 p.; 2nd ed. Moscow: AST; Vostok-Zapad, 2005. 310 p.; 3rd ed. Moscow: AST; Vostok-Zapad, 2007. 310 p.

Copulative communication type in Chinese vocabulary // Vostochnye yazyki [Eastern Languages], Moscow, 1971, pp. 140-151.

Lexical and word-forming antonyms // Research on Oriental Languages, Moscow, 1973, pp. 192-199.

Variirovanie kitayskikh copulativnykh slozhnykh slov [Variation of Chinese copulative compound words]. Sbornik statei po vostochnom yazykoznaniyu [Collection of articles on Oriental Linguistics], Moscow, 1973, pp. 102-114.

On the syntagmatic semantics of copulative addition in the Chinese language, Issledovaniya po kitayskomu yazyku, Moscow, 1973, pp. 63-78.

On the semantics of copulative addition in the Chinese language / / Problems of semantics. Moscow:, 1974. pp. 303-307.

Paradigmatic analysis of the components of copulative addition in the Chinese language / / Eastern Linguistics, Moscow, 1976, pp. 107-111.

On the "Chinese grammar" of Iakinf (N. Ya. Bichurin) / / N. Ya. Bichurin and his contribution to Domestic Oriental Studies (to the 200th anniversary of his birth). Proceedings of the Conference, Part 1, Moscow, 1977, pp. 64-74.

P. I. Kafarov as a lexicographer // P. I. Kafarov and his contribution to Russian Oriental Studies (to the 100th anniversary of his death). Proceedings of the Conference, Part 1, Moscow, 1979, pp. 186-192.

On electivity and redundancy in the Chinese language / / Eastern Linguistics. Electivity, Moscow, 1982, pp. 87-91.

Semantic features of semantic repetitions in modern Chinese // Theoretical problems of Eastern linguistics. Part 6. Moscow, 1982, pp. 162-169.

Some features of modern Chinese vocabulary / / The fourteenth Scientific Conference "Society and the State in China". Tsch. 3. Moscow, 1983, pp. 236-240.

On one feature of the Chinese lexical system // The Fifteenth Scientific Conference "Society and the State in China". Tsch. 3. Moscow, 1984, pp. 59-61.

On some features of lexical synonymy in the Chinese language / / Eleventh Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Moscow, 1984, pp. 59-61.

Big Chinese-Russian dictionary / Ed. by I. M. Oshanin (sovm. Moscow: Nauka, vol. 1-2. 1983; Vol. 3-4. 1984.

About the Normative Dictionary of the Chinese language // The Sixteenth Scientific Conference "Society and the State in China", Part 3, Moscow, 1985, pp. 214-217.

Some features of addition semantics in isolating languages. K tipologii semanticheskikh relyatsiy [On the typology of semantic relations]. Lingvisticheskaya tipologiya, Moscow, 1985, pp. 171-178.

Languages of South-East Asia and the Far East: Problems of complex words. Moscow, 1985. - Author: Semantic features of addition in the Chinese language. pp. 100-110; Formal features of word composition in the Chinese language. pp. 83-89.

Lingvisticheskie issledovaniya v Kitae [Linguistic Research in China]. 1988. N 1. pp. 132-145. Same thing: Foreign languages abroad. Beijing, 1989. N 1 (in Chinese).

* Comp. by V. G. Burov.

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Phraseology in Chinese-Russian dictionaries / / National specifics of the language and its reflection in the normative dictionary. Moscow, 1988. pp. 96-98.

On the current state of Chinese lexicography // Language theory and dictionaries. Chisinau, 1988. pp. 133-136.

On the national identity of Chinese lexicography, in Lingvisticheskie traditsii v stranakh Vostoka [Linguistic traditions in the countries of the East], Moscow, 1988, pp. 119-121.

On the use of component analysis in describing Chinese vocabulary // Aktual'nye voprosy kitayskogo yazykoznaniya [Actual issues of Chinese linguistics], Moscow, 1988, pp. 186-190.

The significance of V. P. Vasiliev's works on Chinese linguistics / / Twenty-second Scientific Conference "Society and the State in China", Part 3. Moscow, 1991. pp. 89-104.

On the reflection of lexical polysemy in the dictionary // Proceedings of the V All-Union Conference on Chinese Linguistics, Moscow, 1990, pp. 136-140.

On metalanguage means of transmitting the meaning of phraseological units / / Phraseological dictionaries and computer phraseology. Orel, 1990, pp. 102-104.

Features of the vocabulary of the Chinese language in Taiwan // Actual problems of Chinese linguistics. M., 1992. P. 51 - 54.

K voprosu ob izuchenii sostoyaemostnykh svoystv slov russkogo yazyka [On the study of the compatibility properties of Russian words]. Problems of intensive teaching of Russian as a foreign language. St. Petersburg, 1993. pp. 73-75.

Bibliography of Chinese linguistics. Book 1 (Comp. co-authored with N. V. Solntseva, A. F. Tolkachev, and S. B. Yankiver). Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1991. 559 p. The same: Book 2. 1993. 524 p.

Features of the new vocabulary of the Chinese language in Taiwan. Preprint of the report at the Fourth Symposium on Chinese Language and Literature. Taipei, 1994, pp. 1-6 (in Chinese).

Preface to art. Xue Detai and Zheng Zochen " The system of appeals in the Chinese national language (Putonghua)" / / Orient (Oriens). 1994. N 2. pp. 129-131.

About some features of composing Russian-Chinese dictionaries. Higher School: Humanities and humanistic foundations of education and upbringing. Part 5. Linguistics. Proceedings of the Russian Scientific Conference. Chita, 1996. pp. 59-61.

Interaction of the national Guoyu language and the Minnan dialect in the context of diglossia in Taiwan / / Chinese Linguistics, Moscow, 1996, pp. 123-126.

Features of lexical borrowings in the Chinese language / / Voprosy yazykoznaniya. 1997. N 1. pp. 48-57.

Basic units of the Chinese language // World of the Chinese Language (Taipei). 1998. N 88. pp. 39-49 (in Chinese).

On teaching the vocabulary of the Chinese language / / Teaching and learning the language (Beijing). 1998. N 1. pp. 49-55 (in Chinese).

Communication with Chinese partners. Conducting negotiations. Interdisciplinary Approach, Moscow: Yanus Publ., 1998, pp. 89-99 (together with V. G. Burov).

Yazykovaya politika v PRC (80 - 90-e gg.) [Language policy in the PRC (80 - 90-ies)].

Notes on the latest Chinese word formation in comparison with Russian / / Faces of the language. To the 45th anniversary of the scientific activity of E. A. Zemskaya, Moscow, 1998, pp. 339-347.

Sovremennaya yazykovaya situatsiya i yazykovaya reforma v Kitae [Modern language situation and language reform in China]. 1999. N 2. pp. 80-91.

Foreign language elements in the vocabulary of the Chinese language. The world of the Chinese language. Nauchno-metodicheskiy sbornik [Scientific and methodological collection], Moscow, 1999, pp. 13-22.

Novye tendentsii v razvitii kitayskoi leksiki [New trends in the development of Chinese vocabulary]. Collection of scientific papers dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the corresponding member. RAS V. M. Solntseva, Moscow, 1999, pp. 228-234.

New words and their types in the Chinese language / / Thirtieth Scientific Conference "Society and the State in China", Part 3. Moscow, 2000. pp. 207-210.

Opyt sozdaniya uchebnika po kitayskoi leksike [Experience in creating a textbook on Chinese vocabulary]. Isolating Languages, Moscow, 2000, pp. 151-156.

Chinese people at work and at home (co-authored) / / V. G. Burov. China and the Chinese through the eyes of a Russian Scientist, Moscow, 2000, pp. 41-67.

On the Hong Kong Dictionary of Foreign Borrowings / / Chinese Linguistics. Isolating Languages, Moscow, 2002, pp. 223-227.

New Chinese Vocabulary and the Tendency of its Development. Chinese Tradition and Civilization and the Contemporary World. Moscow, 2002. P. 45.

Yazykovaya politika v Kitae (1980 - 1990 gg.) [Language policy in China (1980-1990)]. St. Petersburg, 2003, pp. 197-201.

Novye slova v kitayskoi leksike [New words in Chinese vocabulary]. To the 80th anniversary of Yu. A. Rubinchik, Moscow, 2003, pp. 266-275.

O tendentsiyakh slovoobrazovaniya v sovremennom kitayskom yazyke [On word formation trends in the modern Chinese language]. Isolating Languages, Moscow, 2004, pp. 290-299.

Chinese-Russian dictionary of new words and Expressions, Moscow: Vostochnaya kniga, 2007, 736 p. (co-authored by S. V. G. Burov).

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